ISBN:
9783030922191
,
9783030922221
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 203 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kuruüzüm, Umut Building from Scrap
Keywords:
Schrott
;
Kreislaufwirtschaft
;
Souveränität
;
Politische Integration
;
Arbeitsmigranten
;
Arbeitsbedingungen
;
Stahlindustrie
;
Kurdistan (Irak)
;
Political anthropology.
;
Economic anthropology.
;
Ethnology.
;
Ethnology—Middle East .
;
Culture.
;
Economic development.
;
Recycling industry
;
Destruction and pillage
;
Economic history
;
Destruction and pillage
;
Economic history
;
Recycling industry
;
capitalism
;
construction industry
;
recycling industry
;
steel industry
;
migrant laborers
;
development
;
Marxist anthropology
;
ethnic violence
;
realms of kinship
;
Naher Osten
;
Kurdistan Süd
;
Kurdistan
;
Politische Anthropologie
;
Wirtschaftsethnologie
;
Ethnologie
;
Kulturanthropologie
;
Kultur
;
Wirtschaftswachstum
;
Recycling
;
Zerstörung
;
Wirtschaftsethik
;
Plünderung
;
Geschichte
;
Abfallbeseitigung
Abstract:
This book is about the flourishing scrap recycling industry, reconstruction, and state-making in Iraqi Kurdistan within the wider conditions of the war economy, ruination, and state disintegration in Iraq. Through a dialectical relationship between the afterlife and continuity of war over distinct but conjoined landscapes, it examines industrial work, labouring, and statelessness on a frontier territory near the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS). By documenting the advance of the global steelmaking industry, the spread and erosion of selective state sovereignty, and the struggle of dispossessed workers, the book sketches the economic geography of a contemporary market expansion over the northeast of Iraq in a relational and dynamic way. Umut Kuruuzum is Assistant Professor of cultural economics at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, who has been working on war economies, ruination, waste, recycling industries, and labor in the contemporary Middle East. He is a London School of Economics (MSc, PhD) trained economic anthropologist, and he is currently leading a research project on plastic pollution, toxicity, and the inequalities of climate change on the north-eastern Mediterranean coast.
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: War, Scrap, and Recycling -- Ethnographic Presence -- Seeing Capital Relationally in Iraqi Kurdistan -- Thinking War Scrap Dialectically -- The Rest of the Book -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Iraqi Kurdistan as a Capitalist Frontier -- From Rural Landscape into Capitalist Frontier -- Erecting Buildings, Erecting a State -- The Non-ticking Clock -- Kebab Connections -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: The New Frontier of Scrap Recycling -- The Evolving Global Steel Industry -- The New Frontier of Scrap Metal -- Frontier Steel Mill -- Cultivating a Scrap Metal Yard -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: The War Economy of Scrap -- 'Moving' War Scrap -- Vicious Cycle of Grab -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: The Zone of Cheap Labor -- Non-Contract 'Refugee' Labor -- The Nonexistence of Contract -- Contract Labor -- The Existence of Contract -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: In Between Home and Labor Camp -- The Rolling Platform -- Rotation Scheme -- Leaving the Mill Behind -- Carrying Cash Back Home -- Never-Ending House -- The Wife Left Behind -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: In Search of a Place for Infected Bodies -- Dark Purple Spots -- Ruby, the Filipino Masseuse -- Having Sex for the First time -- Deportations of HIV Positive Noncitizens -- In Search of a Place -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: Thinking Through Class and Imagining a State on the Frontier -- Thinking Through Class -- Imagining a State on the Frontier -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-92220-7
